Select academic journal publishers and subject repositories
have implemented tools that allow authors to see their
“impact” at an article level. These usage indicators, called
“altmetrics,” measure article citations, ...

In recent years there has been a growth amongst humanities scholars in the
interest in the materiality of objects including manuscripts, printed books, and
inscribed stones, as they relate to the text inscribed upon them ...

How do the libraries at large institutions market information services to a diverse community of users in an increasingly digital and complex environment? Both Indiana University and Abbott Laboratories are large organizations ...

In a university culture increasingly influenced by metrics, academic libraries can use altmetrics to highlight scholarship’s hidden value. This session will cover the apps and services that can help faculty, administration, ...

Become a power user of the Social Science Research Network, the premiere Open Access repository for Business, Law, and social science scholarship at this graduate-student focused workshop led by Christina Sheley, Business/SPEA ...

As university libraries devote increasing portions of staff time and budget dollars to electronic resources, many are looking for cost- and labor-efficient ways of storing and ensuring access to legacy print collections. ...

This case study describes creating a version of METS Navigator, a page-turning web application for multi- part digital objects, using an AJAX library with user interface components. The design for this version created ...

Working in a community of practice as opposed to a “publish or perish” environment, IU librarians sometimes have difficulty proving the impact of non-traditional scholarship when it comes time to assemble their dossiers ...

This presentation presents examples of qualitative, quantitative and mix-methods assessment projects and how data from these projects can be used to inform library services and policies. Particular attention is paid to ...

The IUScholarWorks Repository is a DSpace-based institutional repository for the dissemination and preservation of Indiana University's scholarly output. As in many institutional repositories, the statistics tracked for ...

This poster and related handouts outline the efforts of the Indiana University Science Data Management Librarian and Scientific Data Curation Assistant to develop a drop-in data management and visualization workshop in ...

Open Access has seen increased acceptance in recent years, yet academic libraries continue to struggle with supporting and growing the Open Access institutional repositories (IRs) and increasing faculty awareness of and ...

Scholars are increasingly incorporating social media tools like blogs, Twitter and Mendeley into their professional communications. Altmetrics tracks usage of these and similar tools to measure scholarly influence on the ...

As the research data management “grand challenge” continues to vex universities, academic libraries have emerged as a key player in data preservation and accessibility. Our university has taken a highly decentralized ...